Matt Elliott

Many of you will have seen the varied claims that are made about imagery from the STEREO satellites - it can't be Venus, it must be a comet, it's releasing a CME, it's Nibiru... you may even have seen other videos debunking those claims - debunkings that take absolutely no time at all.

This video shows over 7000 images from STEREO-B's HI1 instrument taken since January 1st 2010, and over the course of the seven months we get to see a selection of reflections, diffractions, corrupted imagery, spacecraft rolls, distant stars, the milky way... everything can be easily explained within this imagery, so sit back and chill out - you might learn a thing or two.

If you want to learn more about the STEREO imagery there are some key links to get you started listed below.

If there ever comes a time when something truly strange is spotted in STEREO imagery, these links will know about it before YouTube, but until that day - if it ever arrives - enjoy STEREO for what it does show.

STEREO Homepage: http://stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov/
Where is STEREO?: http://stereo-ssc.nascom.na... (click on the Orbit Tool link on this page to generate customized plots for any date you wish)
Latest Beacon Images: http://stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov... (the very latest imagery, with links to a complete image search tools for individual satellites, instruments and dates)
What to look for: http://stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov... (guides to the instruments, imagery, fields of view and image artifacts)
Image Artifacts: http://stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov... (guides to all sort of image artifacts known to affect STEREO imagery, including examples and explanations)
Planet Finder: http://stereo.gsfc.nasa.gov... (recent imagery with known planets labelled and circled - the most obvious page anyone should look at)

Sungrazer: http://sungrazer.nrl.navy.mil/ (includes information for both STEREO and SOHO, the latest comet discoveries, and planet transits through SOHO's view. These guys work on processing the COR2 data from STEREO, among other things)
Ghosts: http://sungrazer.nrl.navy.m... (a news article going into detail about image artifacts, how they're created and so on)

Solar Stormwatch: http://solarstormwatch.com/ (interactive site that teaches you how to spot solar storms within STEREO imagery, and allows you to help science do exactly that)
Solar Stormwatch Forums: http://forum.solarstormwatc... (if you find something unusual or have any questions, you can talk to the guys who work on the data directly)

Celestia: http://www.shatters.net/cel...

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